PHILANTHROPY. PUBLISHED ANNUALLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF “THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR ALLEVIATING THE MISERIES OF PUBLIC PRISONS,” INSTITUTED 1787. JANUARY, 1864. ------------------ PHILADELPHIA: J. B. CHANDLER, PRINTER, 806 & 808 CHESTNUT STREET. 1864. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rooms of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. } At a meeting of the Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, held on the evening of the First Month, (January) 21, 1864, the Editorial Board, (appointed to take charge of the Journal and papers, and the Annual Report,) consisting of Joseph R. Chandler, James J. Barclay, Edward H. Bonsall, and James M. Corse, M. D.,[1] presented the Annual Report, which, having been considered and approved, was ordered to be transmitted to the Society. Footnote 1: It may be proper to state that Townsend Sharpless, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, was appointed on this Board, but was prevented by sickness from taking part in its labors, and he died before the Report was made to the Acting Committee. At the Annual Meeting of the Society, held First Month, (January) 28, 1864, the Report of the “Acting Committee.” was presented, and after consideration, was referred back to the Acting Committee, with instructions to cause the whole (or such parts thereof as might be deemed best) to be printed in the usual form, with any other matter that should be thought advisable. At a meeting of the Acting Committee, Second Month (February) 11, 1864, it was ordered that the Annual Report, signed by the President and Secretary, be referred to the members by whom it was proposed, with instructions to them to cause a suitable number of copies thereof to be printed. JOHN J. LYTLE, Secretary. ------------------ REPORT.